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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE STEUBEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON. Letter Signed, "Steuben Maj: Genl," to Brigadier General George Weedon, reporting on Cornwallis's abandonment of wounded troops and prisoners in the wake of the Battle of Guilford Court House. With franking signature on address leaf. 2 pages, folio, with integral address leaf; 2 small seal holes in address leaf. Richmond [VA], 29 March [1781]
"On my way here I met Col. Morris, Genl. Greene's aid, with letters informing me that Cornwallis was retreating towards Cross Creek, having left behind those of our men who were wounded & prisoners & a capt & 70 men of his own wounded; that, however, his [Greene's] force is not such as to enable him to injure the enemy on the retreat & begs reinforcements from hence. This agreed perfectly with the plan I had the pleasure to communicate to you, but I am sorry to inform you the Council have rejected it. In this situation I can only recommend to you to do the best you can with the means you have in hand, & inform me of what passes. My business will detain me at Chesterfield some time."
